THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXI.
Music of Sousa's Band Wins Favor of Large Audience
Famous March King Offers Varied Program of Solo and Ensemble Numbers
(By Dorothy Dillaway)
The music of Sousa's band was an invitation to swing along to march time, to feel again the thrill ofcircumference and the memory of a spectacular parade.
Sousa's work in achieving a lightness of tone quality unusually obtainable in an orchestra rather than in a band, was worked out in crescendos and diminishes which gave variation to selections which might otherwise have been merely mediocre.
"called Many" Encores
organization with an ease and grace even in the most exotic numbers. The lively vigor of the music was altogether pleasing to the audience, which was "the most aesthetic in applauding every encore."
"The Victory Ball," by Schelling, was undoubtedly the most interesting if not the best work of the bapd. Its weird, fantastic characteristics, so fascinating to music lovers, were accorded great applause before the interval and an encore of Souza's "Rhythm of the Artefacts" and "Artillery"; and an Indian dance composed by Prof. C. S. Skilton, concluded the groun.
Called Many Encores
The appeal of the familiar tunes, "Dixie," "The Stars and Stripes Forever," and "Carry Me Back to Old Timing," plainly pleases the audience.
Solistis Weir Received
John Dolan gave the first solo for the cornet, "Cleopatra," by Demarce. Miss Nora Burchal, soprano, sang "The Tale of Narcissus" with Leaving Harp Nest. George Carey played Chopin's "Nocturne and Waltz" on the xylophone. Miss Rachel Senior, violinist, did "Faust Fantasin," by Sarate. All the solistos were recalled several times.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE. KANSAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923
The advisability of introducing violin and vocal solos in a band concert, particularly a number like Beethoven's "Minster," might be questioned. At any rate, the accompaniment over-balanced the violin.
The band was most generous with its encos, and eightteen times Sousa gave the magic signal which poured out old favorites of twenty-year-age fame and popular songs of today accented by new solo features on various instruments.
It was a little disappointing to hear so many selections fitted for a symphony orchestra when one went to the concert expecting to be entertained by some of the marches for which Sousa's band has been noted.
Churches Unite in Service
Unitarians of Three Cities Plan Religious Institute
A tri-city institute feri religious education will be held at the Unitarian church, 12 and Vermont streets. Wednesday afternoon, Bc. 5. The Church of St. Mary's has Lawrence, and Topka are uniting in religious services on that day.
The program will be opened at 3 p.m. by President William I. Lawrence, Th. D. of Boston, who will speak on "The Home, the School, the Church and the Child." During the afternoon speeches concerning the teaching of religion to children in the schools, the addresses of the three cities. The speeches will be followed by questions and discussion from the audience.
At 6:10 p. m. the Rev. Mr. Clifton M. Gray, of Topokan, will lead a devotional service. A box lunch will be held at 6:30 p. m., at which the Lawrence church will provide hot drinks and desserts to M. Birkhead of Kawasaki City will speak on "Can Religion be Taught?" Doctor Lawrence will close the institute with a speech on "Education and the Press."
rence will class the institute with a speech on "Education and the President Social Order."
In answer to the inquiries of many students about the date of the Christ-mas vacation, the holidays will begin at noon Saturday, December 22, and end Monday, January 7, 1924, according to the official University calendar.
Christmas Recess Dec. 22
Haskell Student Elected President of Kansas Hi-1
Charles Grounds, an Oklahoma Indian boy and a student at Haskell Institute, was elected president of the Haskell conference. Saturday, he attended Haskell School disciplinarian, is leutnant colonel of the Haskell cadet corps, and is mess sergeant of Company with infantry, Kansas National Guard.
The other officers elected were: Ted Nordyke, Wichita, first vice-president; Jack Woods, Kansas City, Kan., second vice-president; Gerald Patton, Newton, third vice-president; Sidney Emmett, Lawrence, secretary; James Taylor, Wichita, treasurer; Maxwell Thomas, Winfield, assistant secretary, and Ralph Martin, Topeka, assistant secretary.
Fifty-Five Engineers Make Inspection Trip to Industrial Plant
Mills, Bridges and Factories Included in Recently Completed Tour
"The best trip the engineers have ever made," was the comment of P. F. Walker, dean of the School of Engineering, who was in charge of the trip which fifty-five engineering students made during the week preceding Thanksgiving to inspect industrial enterprises in and around Atlanta and to design credit." continued Dean Walker, "for the interest which they took in the work and for their conduct while on the trin."
All of the party except Dean Walker returned Wednesday night. Phose in charge of the different groups were Prof. H. A. Rice, civil engineers; Prof. J. E. Johnson; Prof. D. Wiley; chemical engineers.
Some of the places visited were the steel mills at Gary, Ind, the Portland Cement plant at Buffington, the Compton plant at Fair Oaks and the bridges and pumping stations of the City of Chicago. The visit to Kenessea which had been planned was not made as the plant was shut down in 2015. The factory's manufacture was visited instead.
On the return trip a stop was made to enable the students to visit the power dam on the Mississippi river at Kookik, Iowa.
Hopkins Re-elected Editor
Dr. E. M. Hepkins, of the department of English, returned Sunday from the annual three-day meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English in Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, at which he was re-elected associate editor of the English Journal of Education, and button was the second official delegate of the Kansas English Association in attendance.
Apart from the routine business and program the council considered an exhaustive and nation-wide survey of all aspects of English teaching to follow and complete work already done in it, to be taken up by a district or the "Hopkins Report" on college and secondary school English.
while that part of the report relating to the elementary school English is still in the hands of the Bureau of Education.
At Detroit, Prod ssor Hopkins spoke before a conference of expresidents of the National Council On his way to Detroit he stopped at Cedar Falls, Ill., and spoke before the Iowa State Teachers College.
Prof. Thomas C. Blaisdall, of the ennyslauvin State Normal, was elected president of the council, sue- ment of the university of the university of Nebraska.
Alfred Graves Accepts Secretaryship in Tulsa
Alfred J. Graves, A. B., 21, assistant secretary of the Better Business Bureau of the Kansas City Advertising Club, will go to Tulsa, Oka. Dec. 8, to take the position of secretary of the Better Business Bureau of Tulsa.
Mr. Graves announced his resi-
nation last week after a service of
a year and a half with the Kansas
City bureau. After his graduation
here he was connected with the
Dodge City Daily Globe.
Special Features Planned for Next K. U. Radio Night
Principal Speakers Will Be Governor Davis, James S. Barrow, and E. H. Lindley
The complete program of the second K. U, Radio Night, Dec. 10, was announced yesterday in a news letter sent out from the Alumni office, on Friday. The group combined in an entertainment that it is hoped will equal or excel the success of last year. Governor Davis, Chancellor Lindley and James S2 Barrow, president of the Alumni committee will be the principal speakers.
Short talks will be given by several faculty members. Athletic leaders and officials will review the reports of the past weeks of pacts ahead. This will be the signal for a yell fest. Promoters of the program are anxious that a large number of students turn out so that they can give a real example of K.U. u.p.
Music will be furnished by the Men's Glee Club, the Women's Glee Club, the University Orchestra, the College Choir, the Band, Professor William B. Dowing will lead the combined glee clubs and the audience in singing K. U. songs. Original compositions by the Women's Glee Club.
Crimson and Blue with Rock Chall
Combined Glee Clubs
Familiar Voices
Program:
Women's Glee Club Numbers: Evening Brings Rest and Yo
**Gymsp**
Body and Soul ... KKU
I Have a Little Shadow, Webbe
Kansas ... Marell
The Ku Klux Khan ... Marcell
The Ku Klu Kuan ... Marnett
The Memorial ... Sherman G. Elliott
University Orchestra Numbers:
Oberon Overture ... Weber
In a Chinese Tea Room ... Langer
Persian March ... Laneve
Address ... James S. Barrow
Men's Club Numbers:
The Song of the Viking. Chadwick
The Whizz-Fish • Steele
Incidental Solo by Kenneth Miller
Ashes of Roses • Colo
The Overcrossed Goal Line
Athletic Leaders
K. U. String Quartet:
Andante from 2nd Quartette
Andante from 2nd Quartette ...
Mozart
K. U. and the State
K. U. and the State
Governor Jonathan M. Davis
Group of K. U. Songs ...Led By
K. U. Band Concert:
Henry VIII Dance.Edward Gorman
Morris Dance
Moonlight in Florida Storm
K. U. Today and Tomorrow
Reading of Telegraph Messages
Finale...Crimson and the Blue and
Faculty Attends Meeting
The Shepherd's Dance
The Torch Dance
the Rock Chal
Chancellor Lindley
No. 64
Mathematical Groups Convene at Columbia
Four members of the mathematic faculty of the University of Kansas represented the University at a conference in the western section of the American Mathematical Society and the Missouri section of the Mathematic Association of Americas, held at the University of Arkansas on Friday and Saturday of last week.
The guests were entertained Friday night with a reception at the home of Professor Hedrick, head of the department of mathematics at the University of Missouri. Saturday noon, the members of the situs faculty came to Emporia, Joseph Elison, entertained with a luncheon Professors Stouffer and Lefschetz presented papers at the society meetings.
Mrs. I. L. Garrett of Lawrence has announced the engagement of her daughter, Madge, c26, to Morton E. Nelson, A. B., c23.
Prof. U, G. M. Mitchell, Prof. S. Lefschetz, Prof. E. B. Stouffer and Prof. C. H. Ashton, all of whom are members of both societies, were represented with thirty representatives of other colleges and universities attended.
WIRE FLASHES
Salina, Kan. (U. P.) Dec. 4. Nearly five-hundred negroes of Salina attended a mass meeting last night for the purpose of adopting a resolution against the showing of the film "The Birth of a Nation" in Kan. The resolution was to be presented By Governor Jonathan M. Davis.
Philadelphia, Pa. (U. P.) Dec. 4. More than 800 persons have been killed in Philadelphia directly or indirectly by poison alcohol since Jan. 1972, according to Frank" Paul special investigator for the coroner of Philadelphia.
Washington, D. C., (U. P.) Dec 4-Henry Ford's fork to take over Muscle Shoals is still open, it was revealed at the White House today
Washington, D. C., Dec. 4—Several thousand of bills and resolutions today await the organization of the House to begin their legislative journey through the sixty-eighth Congress.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 4. The wave of sentiment aroused in Congress by the Craig contempt case crystallized today in a *c*-section of the law that will induce a bill into the Senate's program for elections of federal judges.
Paris, France, Dec. 4—The reparations commission met today to nominate extefora for the proposed comittee into Germany into Germany's cacacity to pay.
Democratic Leaders Form Coalition With House Progressives
Coolidge Believes Organization Should Be Effected During Day
(United Press)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 4.—A coalition of Progressives and Democrats to force liberation of House rules was in practice today as the House met on its second day of an attempt to organize.
Representative Nelson, leader of the House Progressives, conferred with Representative Garrick, Democratic leader, to organize on a process of rule revision which both could support. Democratic members in Congress are favor of the same amendments for which the Progressives are fighting.
Nelson had said earlier in the days that he wanted the revision to be enacted by the Republican party and not by a merger only "as a last resort."
it was indicated before the House met that the Progressive group had already decided to accept the support of a Republican in an attempt to secure rule revision.
The Kansas Authors' Club was founded at Topena twenty years ago. Since then it has become a statewide professional and amateur writers.
While the House was taking the ballot of the day, it was stated at the White House on behalf of President Couldge that his information led him to believe that the House would be organized sometime today. The House of Couldge hoped to be able to deliver his message to Congress Wednesday.
Kansas Authors' Club Will Meet in Lawrence
When the House convened at noon today, the clerk called the roll for Mr. Dugard to elect a speaker. As balloting went on it became evident that there was little change in the line-up which bad produced a deadlock yesterday. The session. As soon as the chaplain had concluded the prayer, Senator Curtis, Republican whip, moved that formal reading of the minutes of the last session. Then Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn until tomorrow.
Three residents of Lawrence are included in the latest membership list of the Kansas Authors' Club. They are Earther Foster, gr’24; Jerry Kaiser, secretary of the Alumni Association, and Mrs. Louisa Cook Den Carlos.
Margaret Larkin, c'24, and vice- president of the second district, is in charge of the Kansas district session of the Kansas Author's Club to be held in Lawrence
Phi Alba Tau announces the pledg ing of J. S. Pennell, c'25.
House Gang Rule Must Go, Insists Reform Element
Changes in Order of Lower Chamber Are Proposed by Progressive Faction
(By John M. Nelson, Representative from Wisconsin, Written for the United Press)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 3—Progressive Republicans in the House are battling to knock out the gang rule, so that a majority of that body will have a chance to effect constitutive legislation.
Under the present House rules a committee chairman can pocket a report and refuse to obey the orders of the committee and wishes of a majority of the House. The Old Order is in force that rule on the House again.
The Progressives are not trying to impose their will upon the majority of the House. They are fairly fighting to let the majority express its will necessary to break the secret conventions of the House and the wheel of that body hack in the bands of the majority.
This the Old Guard leaders refuse to let them do. The fact that they are in a position to deny the majority an opportunity to express its will, through the present rules are vicious and the following changes proposed by the Progressives are necessary:
First: Provisions for replacing incompetent and negligent chairmen of committees by men who will discharge their duties.
Second: Procedure for discharging committees failing to act on bills and placing measures before the House for a vote.
Third: Changes to prevent the rules committee from prohibiting members from offering amendments to bills.
Fourth: Ban on pocket vetoes by chairmen.
Fifth: Require the speakers to give a week's notice of business before the House, to prevent surprise legislation.
Sixth: Provision for obtaining a record vote in the House on amendments.
Seventh: A method whereby House members may get information from government departments upon demand.
Old Guard leaders well know the Progressives are making a fight on the assumption that a majority of the people want to govern the people. A majority of the people's representatives are entitled to determine the action of the House so they can grouge him so the imposed demands by the last Congress by a select few.
Stadium Drive Success
Present Reports Far Exceed All Expectations
Reports on the Stadium-Union drive has not fully been checked, but it is already known that the results are far better than they were last year, exceeding the expectations of Lindley and the executive committee.
"Because of a minor operation I have not been able to go over the reports turned in by the different coaches, but I notice the nounce the winning teams on the drive for two or three days," said Prof. J. W. Baumpartner, directing operations.
According to the latest results obtainable, the teams of Captain Mitchell and McComb were running a close and interest race, first one and then the other taking the lead. "All the workers deserve great credit for the work and for the time they worked at the Stadium-Union," said Helena Munichy director of the executive committee this morning.
Former Student to Speak at Insurance Conventio
LEE A. . Phillips, fs 92'-93', will speak at the seventh annual convention of Insurance Presidents, in Houston, Thursday and Friday of this week.
Mr. Phillips was a member of the Phi Gaena Delta fraternity. He now is the Vice-president and Secretary of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, His home is in Los Angeles, Cal.
K. U. May Send Thirty to Student Convention
Nearly forty students have applied for places with the University jelecation to the ninth Quadrennial Student Volunteer Convention which is to be held at Indianaapolis during the Christmas holidays.
Although it is necessary that registration of the deleterate be made by Dec. 11, the committee of *selection* must declare the delegates, for it is probable that more reservations can be had for *-1*, delegation than the quota calls for. Twenty-two to the quota but it is possible that reservations can be made for at least thirty.
Announcement of the delegates chosen will be made within the next day or two, according to Miss Maria Russ, secretary of the Y. W. C. A.
Sixteen Kansas Men Applicants for Entrance to Oxford in 1924
thodes Scholarship Award Will Be Made by Board This Week
The final decision for the awarding of the Rhodes scholarship will be announced Saturday by the committee, and will be announced University Friday afternoon. The members of the committee have arranged for private interviews with each of the five candidates; after each interview, the committee will make its report.
The committee of selection for Kansas which was appointed by the American secretary to the Rhodes trustees is: Dr. Frank Strong, secretary-chairman, Lawrence; B. B. Bristow, Salina; E. V. Nash, Kansas City; M. B. Giffen, Tarkio, Mo.; and J. H. Becker, Johns Hopkins Hold has the position of chairman ever since the scholarship was originated in 1904.
The University of Kansas has five representatives applying for the scholarship; Frank L. Sneel, F124; Gerald Smith, m26; Frank Rising, e24; Wallace James, e24; and Ben Howey and Rachel Brown, Howard Myers and Rueben L. Porney. Southwestern College: Raymond G. Carvey, Kansas Agriculture College. H. Otis Garth. Emporia College. Carol V. Newsm. Fairmount College. K. Kelly, Beth College. Curt F. I. Fauconner. Baker College. Carl C. Harold with Harold C. Case, Harvard University, William Lindsay White.
The scholars elected this year will enter Oxford in 1924. The selections are based upon qualities of manhood, morality and attainments, and physical vigour.
Record Snow in November
Month Practically Normal With Little Cloudiness
Thirty-five years out of the past fifty-five without a bit of snow in November, and then five inches of it on the day of the Kansas-Missouri football game, when 21,000 persons crowded into the K. U. stadium, is the record at the University of Kansas meteorological station. Only three other Novembers in the fifty-three months preceded the snowfall of this year, when the month's precipitation came on Thanksgiving day. Other records were in 1906, 10 inches; 1888, 12 inches; and 1874, 14 inches.
In other respects, November, 1923, was practically normal, says C. J. Posey, University meteorologist. The mean temperature was 3.25 degrees Celsius, and the month's maximum less than the normal maximum and the minimum above the normal minimum. The greatest durnal change was 37 degrees, from 65 to 28 on Nov. 17, and from 30 to 24 degrees, from 39 to 30 on Nov. 29.
Rainfall and relative humidity were practically normal, but cloudiness was unusually small, with eighteen clear days.
Phi Beta Kappa Meeting Thursday
The Phi Beta Kappa council will meet Thursday afternoon, Dec. 6, at 4:30 in room 206 Fraser hall for important business. The council is meeting for longing to the organization, including those who were not initiated in the University of Kansas chapter.
C. L. Smith, e'87, of Kansas City, attended the Homecoming and the Thanksgiving game.
Allen Advocates Shifting of Date for Tiger Game
Athletic Board to Consider Change; Saturday Before Thanksgiving Day Suggested
"Kansas is indeed strong for a change in the date of the Missouri game. For several years we have been advocating that the date be changed from Thursday to Thanksgiving," said Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics, when interviewed concerning the rumor that the annual Turkey day battle between the Jayhawkers and the Titans was to be shifted to another date.
"thanksgiving day should be a day of rest and should not be taken with football games or other athletic contests," said Doctor Allen. "It is time that Kansas was getting playing games on such a day. Feeling at Missouri is much the same as at Kansas concerning a change of date."
ideas is Not New
The idea changes the date, not an altogether new one, as agitation for a change was made three years ago in the athletic board which at that time declared itself in favor of a change. The athletic board will meet to consider formally a proposal that Lindley has already written a letter to President Brooks, of the University of Missouri, recommending that another date be set aside for the contest. A similar letter has been received. Doctor Allen to G. L. Mosser, director of the Missouri school.
"Nearly every large school in the country holds its big game on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and the players are given a change to go home and be and their families," said Doctor Allen. The only argument that could be advanced for the holding of the game on Thanksgiving would be made, and that more money would be made. Kansas has her own Stadium and is not concerned with making money.
Will Not Reduce Attendance
“If we wanted to make more money at our games we could charge $35 and get it as easily as we get $2,” said Doctor Allen. “Missouri and other schools have done it, and the crowds come just the same. However, I believe that Kansas will get just as many as Saturday for Thanksgiving as she now gets on Transkringday.
"The Homecoming crowds would be just as large and would come in Friday and stay over Sunday with some friends. You'll have same night as the game in order to get home and back to work. The hard-surfaced roads about Lawrence will bring in as large crowds as we will, and I am strong for a change."
Three Are Honor Guests
Members of 1874 Class to Be at Commencement
Three members of the class of 1874 will be honor guests of the University at the fifty-second annual commencement on June 10, 1924, according to Alfred G. Hill, alumni secretary. The three men were: Richard Fosse, B. S; Hannah Oliver, A. B, A. M; and Elliard Bradford Nobes, A. B.
Mrs. Hasselman is now residing at 3445 Central street, Indianapolis, while Mr. Noyes is a civil engineer living at 117 Dinwiddie street, Portsmouth, Va. Miss Olive is at prestige languages in the University. She is a charter member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Last year, two members of the class of 1873 received a banner for their class from Chancellor Lindley, who gave them a banner fifty years after their graduation.
Two Students Play with Sousa Cedric Wilson, e25, and Orville Basket, '26, two University students, played in the concert here yesterday afternoon with Sousa's band. Mr. Wilson played a bassoon, and Mrs. Wilson played an oboe on the band. Both are members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Wilson played with Sousa's band during the years 1921 and 1922.